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  • One from the Heart
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Matrix
  • The Piano Teacher

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  • Mad Max 2

    ★★★★½

  • Missing

    ★★★

  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

    ★★★½

  • War for the Planet of the Apes

    ★★½

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  • The Piano Teacher

    The Piano Teacher 2001

    ★★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2022 2

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    I have a strong desire to write something more meaningful about The Piano Teacher but I've been struggling to find the words, so take this less as a specific review or essay and more as a nonspecific disconnected string of thoughts and feelings about this Haneke masterpiece.

    Erika is so clearly a sexually repressed and abused person who wears a cold and distant face to hide her insecurities. Buying dresses to feed a fantasy that is likely some sort of…

  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie

    The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023

    ★★ Watched 06 Apr 2023 1

    It's called a road, it's called a Rainbow Road
    It is a road that you go

    I would have loved a world where The Super Mario Bros. Movie played the Rainbow Road theme from Mario Kart. It would have been perfect for the car chase set piece that happens mid way through the film… on Rainbow Road. But instead we’re met with some generic 80s rock song that doesn’t embody the spirit of Mario at all. 

    This is emblematic of…

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  • Missing

    Missing 2008

    ★★★ Watched 11 May 2024

    A very weird piece of Hark’s oeuvre. A plotty Horror-Mystery with some bizarre imagery. I’m not sure it totally works.

  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 10 May 2024 1

    More movies should steal ideas from The Way of Water

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  • Challengers

    Challengers 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 25 Apr 2024 8

    Its a very good movie but all I can think about is how I love techno and having sex with men

  • Napoleon

    Napoleon 2023

    ★★★½ Watched 21 Nov 2023 4

    Making the violence and gore look fucking awesome and then saying "Napoleon led soooo many men to their death :(" is silly

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